Hi friends & writers,
Do I dare believe that spring is here? The longer days make me think so – and from where I sit at a café on 8th Street while writing this, I can see one person sitting outside (granted, he is a very bundled up person) but still – it feels like a good sign.
Happy start to March, and happy writing!
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PROCESS: MAKING IMAGERY
Or metaphor. Or pretty language, or whatever you want to call it. Imagery is really just descriptive language that expands the way we look at a thing. It is most effective when it uses hard-as-nails images to illustrate hard-to-conceptualize ideas.
Try this: Make two lists: one of abstract ideas or nouns (getting older, Uncle Jerry, happiness, tomorrow). Then a second list of concrete visible things (banana leaves, hammers, geese in a V, armchairs). Then look at those two lists together. Try out the first abstract noun from List #1 against each concrete noun from List #2. Do any combinations strike sparks? If so – try using the second noun to describe the first: “Uncle Jerry sat among us, a stolid armchair of a man….”
FEATURED VENUE: THE APPLE VALLEY REVIEW
A journal of contemporary literature founded in 2006, The Apple Valley Review seeks writing that has “both mainstream and literary appeal” for its spring and fall issues. Accepting work year round. No genre fiction, please, and no simultaneous submissions.
Submission Guidelines here: http://www.applevalleyreview.com/
PROMPT
Choose a character from an earlier piece of writing. What does this person most hope for? (5min) What does she or he most dread? (5min)
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